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CAPTION Annenberg Public Policy Center, Annenberg Science and Public Health (ASAPH) Survey Feb. 2026, N=1650, MOE=+/-3.5% CREDIT Annenberg Public Policy Center

This is encouraging.

Kennedy promised to restore trust in our health agencies.

He achieved the opposite.

Confidence in health agencies dropped during Trump’s first year.

38% of people trust Kennedy.

Polls show more trust in professional associations.
🧪 www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

How Stand Up For Science is trying to 'pull every lever' to win over the public Stand Up For Science has become a formal organization and adopted a new strategy that's more confrontational with grassroots tactics

"Our strategy, our goal, is to meet the moment in the streets, so to speak."

Spectacular. This is how it's done.

www.statnews.com/2026/03/06/s...

STAND UP FOR SCIENCE ANNOUNCES COUNCILMAN MICTHELL NOWAKOWSKI, BUFFALO COMMON COUNCIL FILLMORE DISTRICT AS A SPEAKER AT THE BUFFALO, NY NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION RALLY ON SATURDAY, MARCH 7TH! MARCH 7TH, 2026 NATIONWIDE Join the fight at standupforscience.net

Stand Up For Science announces Councilman Mitchell Nowakowski, Buffalo Common Council, Fillmore District as a speaker at the Buffalo, NY National Day of Action rally on Saturday, March 7th!

Visit standupforscience.net/march7 to find local rally!

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a woman in a judge 's robe is sitting in front of an american flag and saying `` well duh '' . Alt: a woman in a judge 's robe is sitting in front of an american flag and saying `` well duh '' .

Trying not to judge, but there’s a reason people wanted a vaccine.

Measles is 'worse than expected' in Utah, officials say Measles patients in Utah are developing severe complications, health officials say, including potentially life-threatening anemia and liver inflammation.

For RFK Jr and his “measles isn’t serious” disciples:

“A number of them clearly said if they had known, they would have vaccinated themselves and their children against measles, but they didn’t realize how bad it was”.

A photo of Doc Brown from Back to the Future holding jumper cables labelled "Deranged Activist" with a grant of NIH funding curves below it.

My weekly update on NIH funding

This includes awards made through 2/27/26

Warning: This thread contains data compiled by a known deranged_activist™. Do not read while operating heavy machinery.

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Stark Divide: Americans More Confident in Career Scientists at U.S. Health Agencies Than Leaders | The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania When it comes to reliable health information, Americans are more confident in federal health agencies' career scientists than their leaders.

Someone want to ask Jay Bhattacharya how his whole rebuilding trust in NIH thing is going?

www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/stark-divide...

New tool from @ourpublicservice.bsky.social explores the unraveling of public science during the first year of the Trump administration.

Highlighting some of their findings for biomedical research.

Excited and honored to speak at the @standupforscience.bsky.social rally in DC tomorrow!

I hope to see you all out there, standing up for science (and democracy!) together. It is going to take all of us working in solidarity to demand a science that serves all of us.

#StandUpForScience

If you block junior scientists from ensuring that they can afford to live (or start families!) in the exorbitantly expensive areas around their workplaces, only family-subsidized solitary rich kids will be able to pursue careers in research - amidst exponential inflation, increasingly few people.

Current NIH leadership want you to think they are using rigorous, consistent & scientific processes to screen studies to align them with agency priorities.

But the process that they have put down on paper is a sham.

It’s important to know NIH is not following its own guidance. Here’s why:

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AHRQ has been hit even harder than NIH. They have no grant making staff at all.

Bobby. You’re next, sweetie.

Exclusive | FDA’s Controversial Vaccines Chief Will Leave the Agency Dr. Vinay Prasad will depart in April, after a year leading the division that approves vaccines and biotech drugs.

WSJ: FDA’s Controversial Vaccines Chief Will Leave the Agency

by Liz Essley Whyte @lizessleywhyte.bsky.social @wsj.com

Vinay Prasad to depart next month
on.wsj.com/4rct7zT

A new quiet majority in medicine raises big questions Quiet majority medicine raises key challenges as women become the majority in U.S. residency programs, highlighting gaps in pay and leadership roles.

Women now comprise the majority (50.2%) of physicians in training — but as representation rises, specialty gaps, pay inequities, and leadership disparities remain. Our own Diana Lautenberger discusses solutions in a recent Becker's Hospital Review interview.

Armcahir Activist Activate! The OPM needs comments against making it easier to fire feds. Comment here: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/03/05/2026-04377/reduction-in-force

Spam in the Gears! The OPM needs comments against making it easier to fire feds. Comment here: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/03/05/2026-04377/reduction-in-force

Well well welllll Fuckery Friday, I see you have arrived at my door…

Not today Satan! Not today! It’s a Friday Spam in the Gears! Thread 🧵🧵🧵 because the OPM is fucking the fuck around.

If you have never died from a vaccine-preventable disease, you have benefitted from SCIENCE. Show your gratitude by attending an SUFS event near you, TOMORROW.

His lack of scientific background is one of several concerning aspects of his candidacy.

A clear “NO” on confirmation.

Nature Report, Killed by Trump, Is Released Independently

Scientists and other experts were preparing an assessment of the health of nature in the US when Trump returned to the White House. He canceled the report. The researchers went ahead and compiled it on their own. This week, they released a 868-p draft for public comment and scientific review.

OPM proposes new layoff rules emphasizing performance and reducing employee protections Since a draft of the new policy began circulating last fall, federal regulators expanded those excluded from agency reduction in force rules to include all career federal workers in the government’s e...

Awesome. Because our jobs aren't hard enough. In comes OPM to make it so much worse.

Can a strange new treatment finally relieve chronic sinus infections? Constant loss of smell, facial pain and a blocked nose are a reality for the 10 per cent of people living with chronic rhinosinusitis, a disease long-neglected by research. Targeting the nasal microbi...

I was today years old when I found out you can get a "snort transplant" to treat chronic nasal congestion.
Transplant of nasal microbiota may improve symptoms of chronic rhino-sinusitis.
Because I know this, you must now know this too 😊.
www.newscientist.com/article/2494...

Everybody’s got their reasons for despising Markwayne Mullin and mine is him screaming at the dignified and brilliant former CDC Director Susan Monarez at a hearing.

He lied about a nonexistent recording and tried to bully her into submission.

She was a locus of zen. He lost his damned mind.

RFK Jr has 'unreviewable' authority to reshape vaccine policy, DOJ lawyer tells judge A lawyer for the Trump administration told a judge on Wednesday that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has such broad authority over vaccine policy that he could even ​scrap re...

DOJ argued RFK Jr. has "unreviewable" power to swap vaccines for "natural" measles? 🤡

Scientists and the AAP beg to differ! Public health isn't an opportunity for Bobby's psychotic fan fic dreams.

Truly, when did "trust the science" turn into "trust whatever the hell 🧠🪱 dreamed up last night"? 🥴

TAKE BACK our SCIENCE RALLY - MARCH 7 WE ARE THE ONES WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR. standupforscience.net/march7

We can save science, protect health and defend this democracy, but we have to act NOW. Hit the streets! Make yourself seen and heard! Join us on the streets at rallies nationwide on March 7th! Don't sit this out. standupforscience.net/march7

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Be strong and hold tight to your values, all

A more complete set of voices in a companion piece.

www.cnn.com/2026/03/05/h...

Six federal scientists run out by Trump talk about the work left undone | CNN Federal data shows the NIH lost about 4,400 people — more than 20% of its workforce. Scientists say the departures harm the U.S.’ ability to respond to disease outbreaks, develop treatments for chroni...

Compelling story from KFF News/CNN

Listen to the sound clips to get a clear sense of what has been happening at NIH.

www.cnn.com/2026/03/05/h...

Happy Women’s History Month! Here’s to the Texas women who refused to be sidelined and made history anyway.